Sr AI Engineer
Skills
About the role
This is a senior AI engineering role at Target's Bengaluru operation for building, deploying, and supporting production AI and machine learning applications. You will turn business problems into secure, maintainable services, APIs, data workflows, and model-serving systems. The role suits a software engineer with at least five years of experience supporting production data science or machine learning systems.
What you’ll do
- Build and maintain production AI and ML applications.
- Create APIs, services, data workflows, and batch or online inference systems.
- Integrate models and frameworks into reliable enterprise applications.
- Apply MLOps practices for evaluation, monitoring, CI/CD, containers, and cloud deployment.
- Improve performance, scalability, reliability, and operational readiness.
- Work with data scientists, engineers, product teams, security, and business stakeholders.
- Evaluate architecture choices and develop reusable AI engineering patterns.
What they’re looking for
- Five or more years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Experience building or supporting production ML or AI systems.
- Strong Python skills and experience productionizing models.
- Experience with APIs, pipelines, retrieval, and vector-based systems.
- Understanding of MLOps, observability, CI/CD, containers, and cloud deployment.
- Knowledge of system design, AI application architecture, evaluation, scalability, and latency.
- A four-year degree in a quantitative discipline or equivalent experience.
- Strong ownership, communication, and engineering judgment.
Nice to have
- GCP experience.
- Experience with agentic systems.
- LLM evaluation, retrieval quality, and agent observability experience.
What’s on offer
- The role is based on-site at Target's Manyata Embassy Business Park location in Bengaluru.
- Target states that eligible team members may receive health, vision, dental, life, retirement, leave, disability, and employee-discount benefits.
Questions about this role
Where is this Senior AI Engineer role located?
It is based on-site at Target's Manyata Embassy Business Park location in Bengaluru.
How much experience is required?
The posting asks for five or more years of hands-on software engineering experience, including production data science or ML systems.
Is a degree required?
A four-year degree in a quantitative discipline is requested, or equivalent experience may be accepted.
What benefits does Target mention?
The posting mentions health and insurance benefits, 401(k), employee discounts, paid leave, disability coverage, and paid vacation for eligible team members.
How this role compares
One of 15 open Senior AI Engineer roles we are tracking today.
This posting does not state pay. The middle of the 9 that do advertises ₹3,400,000 – ₹4,600,000 a year.
Posted 6 days ago, with 10 of the others posted since and 4 still open from before.
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